US Patent Issued to Viavi Solutions on July 15 for "Quality metric for GNSS based azimuth measurement in an antenna alignment device" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,253, issued on July 15, was assigned to Viavi Solutions Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Quality metric for GNSS based azimuth measurement in an antenna alignment device" was invented by Scott Pettygrove (Leesburg, Va.) and Matthew Lamb (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In addition to GNSS antennas, other azimuth measurement components such as magnetometers may be provided on antenna alignment devices. The GNSS based azimuth may then be compared against the azimuth measured by the other components and the difference (i.e., the delta) may be calculated. Using the calculated delta and or observing the delta over time, a quality m...